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Introduction

NB: See WebMin for the reasons why Webmin was dropped from Ubuntu, is unsupported and has been known to cause configuration problems.

As at 22/5/2007 using Ubuntu 7.04.

Version 1.340 of webmin and possibly older are available directly as a .deb file via www.webmin.com and can be installed by double clicking the .deb package from Nautilus file manager. When installed, pointing a browser to https://localhost:10000 will load the webmin interface. You can now login as your normal username and password. Any user that can use Sudo permissions can log straigh in.

Older versions of Webmin and Ubuntu

If you install Webmin, and still have Ubuntu root password disabled, you won't be able to log in to the Webmin webpage, as the Webmin root login will be disabled too. To fix this, you need to manually change the Webmin root password.

You can do this in one of two ways:

Procedure 1

After you perform # apt-get install webmin, you have to do the following: Find your webmin binary install directory and webmin configuration directory.